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by 317070 6d ago
I've been birdspotting for the last year (in the UK, there is an addictive app called birdex, which is basically like a pokedex in the pokemon game, except it does birds). I am proud to report that I've observed 110 species this y
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by 317070 10d ago
in the case of large language models, the wire is the communication of your parameters between your layers of memory that is often the bottleneck. To do a forward pass, you need to use all parameters once, and so the communication between t
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by 317070 12d ago
It's odd that you can see the borders between Belgium and France for various birds (like the swift and cuckoo), same for the border between Germany and Poland. I wonder why that is? There are no topological features defining these bord
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by 317070 16d ago
No, it was really helpful advice I read somewhere. That when explaining something, always overestimate someones understanding, and underestimate their vocabulary. Edit: apparently it's a vsauce thing. I do think it's right, it hel
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by 317070 17d ago
Overestimate their understanding, underestimate their vocabulary.
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by 317070 17d ago
* We have an oracle that can answer any scientific question! * Can I ask it a question? * Don't be silly, only our high priests can. * No problem, then I'm going to continue doing collaborative science without using the oracle. *
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by 317070 22d ago
Fortunately, the article is neither about the Netherlands nor about its highest point. The title is a joke about hallucinogens.
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by 317070 23d ago
they can win with any odds. But, they can only barely win even with queen odds: https://lqo.leumon.com/
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by 317070 25d ago
Also, while we don't have made statues that old, we do have manuports from 2-3 million years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuport Manuports are natural rocks in "funny" shapes, like faces or fallu
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by 317070 28d ago
It was though? I remember a default being a real option in the media. But in the end, it was clear that unlike in Iceland, bankruptcies were not considerable, and so a bailout was going to happen. The only question was how the bailout would
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by 317070 28d ago
Look into who they were the debtor to. Turns out that a lot of German banks would have needed to scrap debt from their books.
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by 317070 1mo ago
Ironically, doesn't the "Get a job" paragraph have the solution? If you believe that is what the future of jobs at a company looks like, perhaps try to market your tool to agents? You could add an API which is perfect for age
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by 317070 1mo ago
How do you become a baker, in a world of bread factories. I think the answer lies in baking the good old fashioned way and ignoring the factories.
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by 317070 1mo ago
These facts are absolutely disputable, in the sense that they might be very theoretically sensible, but not relevant in practice. What good is a "genetic natural ability" that is theoretically there, when it cannot be extracted fr
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by 317070 1mo ago
I think that important in this context is to consider Polgar's experiments on his own daughters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r This one is for the bucket "Geniuses are made, not b
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by 317070 1mo ago
> I'm not sure that mass air transit has a place in a post-oil society were we try to leave at peace with the planet. Me neither, but that doesn't stop me from celebrating possible breakthroughs in decarbonisation.
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by 317070 1mo ago
> it’s led to poor use of land with questionable climate impact. In the short term, yes, because they were unnecessarily using carbon energy to grow the fuel. But if we want to de-fossilise society in the long run, we need solutions for
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by 317070 1mo ago
I like how AI safety expert Robert Miles put it. [0] So much effort was spend on philosophizing whether a safe enough sandbox would exist. But that was obviously irrelevant as in hindsight it should have been obvious we were never going to
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by 317070 1mo ago
> Search engines will index the decoy. You'll get no traffic. Their solution is basically putting yourself in a black hole. It's only search engines? And who uses those anymore anyway? Other bots? It doesn't affect organic
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by 317070 1mo ago
> Ideally you don't have the same people responding to a domestic dispute as you have responding to a robbery. In Belgium, this was the system until 2001. The system was overhauled to the regular single police force after the larges
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by 317070 1mo ago
If the US becomes insolvent, that would severely impact the USD. But other currencies will not try to follow the USD, there would be no point in that. The USD would just lose more status as an anchoring point. The US is also not a major oil
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by 317070 1mo ago
https://arxiv.org/html/2510.20075v6 It is quite counterintuitive, but you can hide texts the same size as the original text in imperceptible statistics of a text. Compared to that feat, hiding a watermark is very easy.
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by 317070 2mo ago
> but I also accept the reality that it is a more visible, and perhaps exaggerated, form of what has been ongoing forever Thanks for sharing this. It's a deep insight for me. I did not understand how the same people that were deeply
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by 317070 2mo ago
A retiree and a person during a weekend are not even close to the same. For one, the econometrists have no problem distinguishing them, because they don't look the same at all. I can get accurate numbers for retirees, and they will not
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by 317070 2mo ago
If those workers receive pay from somebody else than their employer to do that, one might count them, but I don't know any countries where they do. I don't think there are economic metrics that take weekends into account when defi
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by 317070 2mo ago
Because without an income people tend to not live for very long and that idea makes people uncomfortable? I had not considered that. "Wage to live on" is perhaps a more euphonic translation then.
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by 317070 2mo ago
"Loon" is Dutch for wage. A loan would be "lening", even though "loon" and loan sound exactly the same.
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by 317070 2mo ago
Absolutely. Do note that in the US (and loads of countries) people save for their own retirement, whereas in Belgium the government pays the retirement in a "workers today pay retirees today" system.
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by 317070 2mo ago
If you adjust for all ways people receive minimum income benefits, not just the 'final resort' one, you get > In Belgium, roughly 4.35 million adults (aged 18 and older) are not working out of an adult population of about 9.5 m
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by 317070 2mo ago
> if you had that system, we have no idea whether or not the masses will be content enough to stay sane and peaceful. Belgium, the Netherlands and a lot of European countries, have a "leefloon" or "bijstand". It is a

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